Over 50% of world‟s population presently resides in cities, and this number is expected to rise to ~70% by 2050. Increasing urbanization problems including population growth, urban sprawl, land use change, unemployment, and environmental degradation, have markedly impacted urban residents‟ Quality of Life (QOL). Therefore, urban sustainability and its measurement have gained increasing attentio...

The paper studies intercity trade and growth in an overlapping-generations economy where tradeable goods are produced using a composite of capital, raw labor and intermediates, and are combined in each city to produce a composite. The composite is used for consumption and investment. Tax-financed investment that affects commuting costs endogenizes city size. A combination of weak (strong) dimin...

Trends in suicide among age groups 10-14, 15-19, and 20-24 in Portugal are analyzed for the period 1963-1983. Differences are noted between the north and south and between urban and rural areas. Consideration is also given to the impact on suicide rates of changes over time in the educational system and in the economy. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

Ivan Blecic, Arnaldo Cecchini, Poulicos Prastacos, Giuseppe A. Trunfio, Emmanuil Verigos 1 Università IUAV di Venezia Dept. of Planning Faculty of Urban Planning Venezia, Italy [email protected] 2 University of Sassari Dept. of Architecture and Urban Planning Faculty of Architecture Sassari, Italy [email protected] 3 Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas Institute of Applied and Computationa...

Since its implementation of economic reforms and open door policy, China has rapidly transformed itself from a socialist planned economy to socialist market economy. Guangzhou and Shanzhen are earmarked as the pioneering and experimental cities within the network of cities in Pearl River Delta Region in implementing various market reform measures. Taking advantage of its close proximity with Ho...

Although it has been suggested that structural adjustment policies have slowed Third World urban growth and have stimulated a spatial deconcentration of economic activity, this paper argues that African cities continue to grow and mainly through peri-urban development. This investment comes mainly from domestic sources and migrants’ remittances, and tends to be in consumption rather than produc...

This work argues that open space has been utilized by local planning practice for numerous reasons that have reflected the shifting concerns of the planning profession since the nineteenth century. An intellectual movement that romanticized nature as distinct from social processes and a changing political economy made it possible for open space to serve an interventionist role in addressing soc...

Balancing urban and rural integrated development is the current urgent task to promote China's urban and rural economic and social development. This article evaluates the urban and rural integration level of Wuhan objectively through establishing evaluation index. The article finds out that the urban and rural integration level slightly higher than the urbanization level in Wuhan City. In the i...

the globalization and urban development concepts are closely linked to each other. however, all cities around the world are not affected same by globalization, each one has its spatial and reciprocal international-local action. the international changes of economy, culture, and politics have huge effects on restructuring of cities around the world. the present study as a descriptive-analytical ...

The construction of urban community sports public service is not only an important part of urban community public service management, but also an important content of building the national fitness public service system. In this paper, the author analyse the comparison between China and UK of the construction of city community sports service system in the scope of eco-civilization. With the rapi...